Resident Visa – Family Category

You may apply to come to New Zealand to live if you are sponsored by a family member who is already a New Zealand citizen and/or resident. You can download the relevant forms from the INZ website > Forms and guides. You can also get the relevant information on the above visas from INZ website > Immigration Instructions.

Lodging Your Application

1. Relevant residence visa application form fully completed in English and signed.

2. Photograph Two recent passport sized photographs.

3. Application Fee in US dollars only. Please note that fees are subject to change without prior notice.

4. Valid Passport.

5. Police Certificate If you are aged 17 or older, you are required to provide a police certificate from your country of citizenship, and from the country in which you have lived for 12 months or more (whether on one visit or intermittently) in the least 10 years prior to lodging this application. The certificate must be less than 6 months old at time of application (see INZ website).

6. Medical and Chest X-ray Certificate INZ1007 The certificate must be less than 3 months old at time of application and completed by one of the Immigration New Zealand (INZ) panel doctors in Korea (see INZ website > Doctors for Immigration medicals).

Original or Certified True Copies of Documents: All documents submitted in support of your application must be originals or copies certified by an authorised person by law to take statutory declarations.

Translation: All documents not in English must be accompanied by an English translation certified by a recognised translation service or notary public.

To submit an application under the family category, you must be in one of the groups shown below.

Partner - you are the husband, wife, defacto or civil union partner of a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident

1. Residence Application Form INZ1000 fully completed in English and signed.

2. Partnership Support Form for Residence INZ1178 fully completed and signed by your eligible sponsor.

3. Certified true copies of your Marriage Certificate (where applicable). For Korean Nationals, please provide your Individual, Marriage and Family relation certificates issued in the applicant’s name.

4. Certified true copies of your children Birth Certificates (where applicable).

5. Letter of Support from eligible sponsor.

6. Certified true copies of your eligible sponsor’s New Zealand citizenship/residence status.

7. Evidence that New Zealand is the primary place of established residence.

8. Evidence of living together in a partnership that is genuine and stable.

9. Evidence of current and past marital status for both you and your eligible sponsor (i.e. notarised certificate of ‘never married’ or divorce papers. NZ partners may require providing ‘No Impediment to Marriage’ from the Department of Internal Affairs). (where applicable).

10. For non-Korean nationals, original and copy of evidence of residence status in the country where you are currently residing (work, student, dependant or long-term visit pass, permanent residence, etc.) AND
• Certificate of the Facts of Alien Registration (외국인 등록 사실 증명서) issued from a Korean Immigration Office.
• Certificate of the Facts Concerning the Entry & Exit (출입국에 관한 사실 증명서) issued from a Korean Immigration Office

11. Please refer to the Residence guide INZ1002 for more information

Dependent Child - you are a dependent child with a parent who is a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident
1. Residence Application Form INZ1000 fully completed in English and signed.

2. Certified true copies of your Birth Certificate. For Korean National, please provide your Individual and Family relation certificates issued in the applicant’s name.

3. Certified true copies of parent(s) New Zealand citizenship/residence status.

4. Proof of relationship with parent(s) (e.g. birth certificate, household registration).

5. Evidences that parent(s) is lawfully and permanently in New Zealand.

6. Evidence that you are single, with no children, and 24 or younger.

7. Evidence of financial dependence (where applicable).

8. Child under the age of 16 where biological parents are separated or divorced - evidence from New Zealand citizen or resident parent having the right to remove the child from the country in which rights of custody or visitation have been granted.

9. For non-Korean nationals, original and copy of evidence of residence status in the country where you are currently residing (work, student, dependant or long-term visit pass, permanent residence, etc.) AND
• Certificate of the Facts of Alien Registration (외국인 등록 사실 증명서) issued from a Korean Immigration Office.
• Certificate of the Facts Concerning the Entry & Exit (출입국에 관한 사실 증명서) issued from a Korean Immigration Office

10. Please refer to the Residence guide INZ1002 for more information
 

Parent - This category is closed temporary effective 16 May 2012.
Please refer to new information available at the Immigration New Zealand website at www.immigration.govt.nz from July 2012.

Submitting an application
From 16 April 2012 applicants from Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Japan will be required to submit applications for all resident visas (except resident visas under the Business categories) directly to:

Immigration New Zealand
2503, Henderson Building
300 Nanjing East Road,
Shanghai, PRC.
Phone: +86 21 3366 2734 or 33662784
Email: infosha.nzcn@vfshelpline.com

Fees for these applications must be paid in USD bank cheques. Applicants should add USD10 bank fee and USD25 courier fee to the total amount paid. Bank cheques must be made payable to 'New Zealand Immigration Service'. The application fee and all other applicable fees should be included in one cheque.

Fee amounts in USD can be found on the “Office and fees finder” in the Immigration New Zealand website (www.immigration.govt.nz)
Note: Normal processing time may take at least or up to 6 months (less or more on a case to case basis).